BALTIMORE — Jazz Chisholm Jr. officially gained entry to the Yankees‘ 30-30 club on Friday, homering off Orioles reliever Dietrich Enns in the seventh inning.
With Chisholm having already secured his 30th stolen base of the season, his 30th home run, a two-run shot, put the Yankees on the board after Orioles ace Trevor Rogers silenced the Bombers’ bats for the first six innings. Chisholm went on to celebrate with high-fives and jumps in the Yankees’ dugout, but his blast could not spark a comeback in what became a 4-2 loss.
Welcome to the 30/30 club, Jazz Chisholm Jr. 💪
His 30th homer of the year brings the @Yankees within a run! pic.twitter.com/oZxbrjTifZ
— MLB (@MLB) September 20, 2025
While Chisholm’s milestone didn’t lead to a win, the 27-year-old is just the third player to join the Yankees’ 30-30 club. Bobby Bonds hit 32 home runs and swiped 30 bases in 1975, while Alfonso Soriano crushed 39 dingers and stole 41 bags in 2002 before repeating the feat with 38 homers and 35 steals in 2003.
The Mets’ Juan Soto is the only other player with a 30-30 season in 2025. Chisholm achieved his in spite of a few impeding injuries.
First, he missed a month with an oblique strain. Shortly after returning from that, a nagging groin injury limited him to two unsuccessful stolen base attempts for 39 games.
“It’s really almost two months of play where he wasn’t stealing bases and a month where he wasn’t in the lineup,” Aaron Boone recently said, “so it’s really impressive.”
With Chisholm able to record a 30-30 season with limited time, he has expressed that a 40-40 campaign is attainable. Only six players in baseball history have authored one: Soriano, Shohei Ohtani, Barry Bonds, Jose Canseco, Alex Rodriguez and Ronald Acuña Jr.
“I’ve started thinking about it,” Chisholm, who recorded 40 home runs and 48 stolen bases over his first 162 games with the Yankees, said earlier this month.
“He probably feels like he could be more than that,” Boone added, a joking nod to Chisholm’s confidence.
Asked about being on the precipice of a 30-30 season last weekend, Chisholm said that “it would mean a lot” if the accomplishment coincided with a division title. The odds are against his wishes though, as the Yankees trailed the Blue Jays by three games prior to play on Friday.
Toronto also holds the tiebreaker thanks to its 8-5 record in head-to-head play.
While Chisholm’s latest dinger put the Yankees down one on Friday, his defense hurt the team in the sixth.
That’s when he followed a fielding error from Will Warren with an error of his own, using his glove to flip a ball out of Paul Goldschmidt’s reach at first base. Ryan Mountcastle, who crushed a solo homer off Warren in the second, then added a run with a sac fly.
Warren ultimately allowed three runs over 5.1 innings, though only one was earned, after a grounder gave the Orioles their third run in the sixth. Baltimore added an insurance run in the seventh when Gunnar Henderson smoked a two-out, RBI double off Tim Hill.
The Yankees were also victimized by good defense in the sixth, as Orioles left fielder Dylan Beavers robbed Goldschmidt at the wall before laying out for a sinking line drive off Aaron Judge’s bat. The back-to-back web gems came after Austin Wells picked up the Yankees’ first hit off Rogers, a leadoff single.
Rogers, quietly one of the best pitchers in baseball this season, completed six scoreless innings, only permitted one hit, walked two and struck out seven as he lowered his ERA to 1.35.
